08-09-2024 WASHINGTON: Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft has completed its journey back to Earth but the astronauts it was supposed to be carrying remain behind on the International Space Station. The empty craft travelled in autonomous mode after undocking from the orbiting lab. The capsule, which suffered technical problems after it launched …

08-09-2024 NAIROBI: Parents have been waiting anxiously to find out if their missing children are still alive after a boarding school in central Kenya caught fire. Seventeen pupils were confirmed dead by the Ministry of Education on Friday morning, while the deputy president said 70 children were unaccounted for, so …

08-09-2024 UNITED NATIONS: The United Nations has called for a “full investigation” into the killing of a US-Turkish woman in the occupied West Bank during a protest on Friday. Local media reported that Aysenur Ezgi Eygi, 26, was shot dead by Israeli forces as she took part in a weekly …

07-09-2024 NAIROBI: At least 17 pupils have died after a dormitory at a boarding school in central Kenya caught fire on Thursday night, police said. There are fears the death toll could rise as more than a dozen others have been taken to hospital with severe burns. The cause of …

07-09-2024 WELLINGTON: New Zealand’s Maori chiefs have anointed a 27-year-old queen as their new monarch. The choice of Nga Wai hono i te po Paki was welcomed as a symbol of change for the Indigenous community. She is the youngest child and only daughter of King Tuheitia, who died last …

07-09-2024 WASHINGTON/ MANAGUA: The United States has secured the release of 135 political prisoners held in Nicaragua, including students and members of a faith organization. In a statement on Thursday, US National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan said the prisoners were among the thousands of Nicaraguans caught up in a multiyear …

07-09-2024 DHAKA: Thousands of people rallied Thursday in Bangladesh’s capital to mark one month since former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina was ousted in a mass uprising sparked by students over government job quotas. Hasina fled to India on Aug. 5 after weeks of violence left more than 600 people dead, …

07-09-2024 UNITED NATIONS/ GAZA CITY: UN spokesman Stephane Dujarric said more than one million people in central and southern Gaza did not receive any food rations in August, adding the “humanitarian situation in Gaza remains beyond catastrophic”. Gaza’s Health Ministry says the Israeli military is refusing to coordinate the entry …

07-09-2024 WASHINGTON: Hunter Biden has pleaded guilty to all nine charges in his federal tax evasion case, catching federal prosecutors off guard as they prepared to begin his trial on Thursday. The son of US President Joe Biden had previously denied allegations that he intentionally avoided paying $1.4m (£1m) in …

07-09-2024 PARIS: Veteran French conservative Michel Barnier has taken over as prime minister, almost two months after France’s snap elections ended in political stalemate. He said France had come to a “serious moment” and he was facing it with humility: “All political forces will have to be respected and listened …